tuesday nostalgia

i decided to take a break from my daily dose of NPR to listen to whatever music i had in the computer.  because of the kind of work i do, it really helps to listen to something to keep me from going crazy in the library environment that is the office.  i didn't even make it to three songs when nostalgia hit with this song...

 

 

Hi-Five - Never Should've Let You Go

High Five

they don't make songs like that anymore... T and i always find ourselves having that as a topic of conversation when we listen to stuff from the 80s and 90s.  i was 13 when this song came out and back then, everyone in school had those "borrowed" voicemail boxes, where the girls would put on their cute voices and talk at 75 mph.  i never understood how they could do that and sad to say, i never used my own voice for the voicemail greeting because i always thought i had a man voice.  anyway, one time i checked my boxes when i got home, someone left Hi-Five's Never Should Have Let You Go as a message in one of them.  my first reaction was, "i must have put in the wrong code and accessed someone else's box".  so i do the whole routine again, and there was no mistake... someone left me that message.  at 13, that was the most flattering thing ever.  i was hoping it was this guy named nick rogers, but after racking my brain trying to figure out who it could really be, i came to the realization that it had to be a joke.  for one, i never even had a boyfriend at that point and two, i was chubby.  seriously, boys didn't even notice me until 8th grade when i lost what my mom called, "baby fat".  nevertheless, it was great the first 10 minutes i played the message over and over again, feeling like someone FINALLY liked me.  needless to say, i kept the message for a good month until i got tired of havig to skip through it to listen to the other messages. 

oh the joys of being young and carefree...        

Comments

[philmephlo]

easily, my favorite hi-five song.

kinda dodged the radio-played-outtedness and commercialism and still a gem. other similar songs in that category: faded pictures--case and joe, where are you now?--janet, and the acoustic version of "i'm still in love with you"--new edition.

word.